skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VAC is laughable. The state of cheating in CounterStrike has always been one of the worst games in the industry. VAC doesn't even stop blatant spin botters.

This is especially bad because in CounterStrike, a "game" is a one hour commitment with the same group of people, and most people near the higher levels of rankings report getting a match with a cheater in about 1/10 matches or more. It's so bad, there are MULTIPLE third party companies whose entire product is "we install a rootkit style anticheat software so you can actually play counterstrike" like Faceit.

Counterstrike official servers are unplayable because of cheating.
I mean, christ, Warowl literally had a video last week about how it's impossible to play the new counterstrike because of cheating! Philip should definitely be aware of that situation.

Holding it up as some sort of pillar of achievement is absurd.
Who is paying for all that cellular traffic? The car company? The customer?
QuickBASIC's modernity was just popping out of those 80x25 character cells. It was as promising of the future as Windows 95.
I wrote some scripts that I bind to hotkeys: speech to text, answer the text from clipboard https://github.com/samoylenkodmitry/Linux-AI-Assistant-scrip...
Most of my shell work is encapsulated in a helper script, which is capable of doing things like querying our build server, looking at properties of pull requests, etc.

I'm often glad I wrote it to print out the command it's going to run before running it, because none of my coworkers want to use my helper script, but they've many times asked me to for some obscure command that I encapsulated in it and don't actually remember myself.
I went mad trying to find good domains for new projects, and while instantdomainsearch was good, their suggestions were unusable. So I created comsensei.com to get a list of really good .coms that are still available (actually available). It's been amazing so far!
hey Signoz maintainer here. You can set up alerts to send notifications when there is data missing from your services for configurable periods of time. For example, alert if the data goes missing for the last 5 minutes. Yet to update this in docs, but please find some info here: https://signoz.io/blog/community-update-35/#upgraded-functio...
And another HN bug, I think: Comments are wrapped in "span" elements (which are inline elements) but contain "p" elements (block elements) which is not valid:

<span class="commtext c00">...<p>...<p>...</span>

The W3C HTML validator says: "Element p not allowed as child of element span in this context."

This causes Dillo to render the text in grey from the second paragraph on.
2016 hyundai ioniq here. (subjectively the best car ever.) Hopefully I got it just before "connected cars" were mainstream. Hopefully that changes someday :(
Business idea: independent auto shop that specializes in knocking out telemetry
> Typical databases compress rows or columns anyway these days; or if they don't, then the storage does. So often the question is entropy not character count. For example storage I work with these days takes as an identical number of bytes to store a hex string as to store the same id as a byte array.mo

Storage tends to be cheap, so it's less about that, and more about memory consumption and index efficiency. The cost of transforming back to and from binary is also pretty trivial on modern systems.
Yeah it's pretty gross. I've tried to move away from synthetic fabrics wherever possible. It's just plastic.

I learned recently that a huge amount of the lint you see in the dryer is microplastics. Guess what? A similar amount comes out in the washer and goes out with the waste water wherever that ends up in your area. (These tiny fibers aren't easily caught by bulk water treatment methods, I understand.)
Are American citizens allowed to have opinions that are similar to the opinions of the state of Israel?

It seems you think Israel has direct finance or control interest in AIPAC, do you have something to support that?
public means public, if something is paid for by tax money, it should be licensed for public use
Mods: typo in title "Kubernates" -> Kubernetes
It's not just Honda. It's pretty much everyone.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...
The box said "This is required"

But there was a nice little "skip" button there! Not "skip for now", not "remind me later" not "here's when you won't be able to skip anymore"

Just "Skip"
quite a few great examples on this thread. I'll add lazygit (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) for doing git stuff, and fx (https://github.com/antonmedv/fx) for working with JSONs.
I would LOVE to have an EV that’s a “dumb car”. I have no interest on my car providing me all of the extra bells and whistles that I already get from my phone.

What kills me too is the giant screen with smart features on these cars is extremely unreliable. The GPS/LTE frequently disconnects. The apps randomly crash or are very slow. I’d much rather just use my phone with Bluetooth for any of these features.
Ask HN: How to ensure privacy while building a chatbot?
I am looking for pointers on how to ensure the privacy of the conversations in the design of a chatbot.

I am developing a chatbot on telegram & whatsapp to assist people in learning language.

I would very much like people to use it, without being used.

1. I want to offer satisfying privacy/encryption for those conversations, and some assurances that this is being honored (hopefully by design).

2. I use OpenAI APIs in the bot, so I need to decrypt these conversations before using the APIs, encrypt them again once the response has been delivered.

Any pointers would be most welcome.
Nvidia needs these alt cloud so when big co builds their own GPUs they have them to suck up supply. If they are all dead, Nvidia may have no back path
This just isn’t true. We have multiple bricked android devices from bootloader infected malware downloaded directly from the Play store. Nothing like that has ever happened on iOS.
Costco is the American version of communism, from the $1.50 hotdogs to the high employee satisfaction, to the drab industrial-scale warehouses, to the two-or-three items in each category available.
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I suppose it is subjective, but it seems to be a pretty much near-universal sentiment among gamers I know that "pay to win" sucks.
UUID is 128 bits.

Even for huge tables 64 bits are enough. And for many tables 32 bits is more than enough.
You eat something that goes for 1250 per liter by the tablespoon?
Car company. On lowspeed, low priority connections (basically idle airtime) that are very cheap. Car companies also by airtime in bulk.

If I'm ever (god forbid!) forced to buy a new car the first thing I will be doing is ripping out or physically destroying the built in cellular modem.
Huh, that's an interesting idea. But as an engineer at a small automation integrator, who never has time between busy projects for important-but-not-urgent tasks like interviewing new hires, it seems I should be in your target market, but I can't imagine delegating a critical decision like this to a third party.

Who is your ideal customer? I'm imagining either a nontechnical solo founder (with a really good, high value idea that he'll explain after you sign an NDA) looking to hire a first engineer/technical cofounder to actually build it...and all the problems that come from that. Or I'm imagining a big corp with an HR department that's at odds with the engineering department, always denying their hand-picked candidates and sending them unqualified candidates, but I'm fortunate to have never experienced that kind of environment.

Maybe we're not in your target market in that we expect to need to do training, and don't expect our best long-term candidates to be able to hit the ground running at full speed. We've hired senior engineers with zero experience in our Autodesk Inventor CAD suite, as well as fresh grads with little experience whatsoever? Our "HR Department" is really just two people (our CEO and accountant), so there's no "must know how to lay out a robot cell" to validate in an assessment.

Or maybe we're not in your target market because already have an engineering department with something like a century of combined experience who are totally capable of sorting out a good candidate from someone blowing BS.

Or maybe we're not in your target market because we are just an ordinary small business, we have negligible turnover (it's been 6 years since someone moved to a different company), and only moderate growth rates (only hired 3 engineers in the past 6 years), it's just not that big of a time sink. I suppose a hardware startup with meteoric growth rates would need to spend a lot more time hiring engineers.

One question: You write "We can use any CAD software you prefer." Any? Really? Seems you need a short list here. If you're providing the license, having seats of Inventor, Solidworks, Catia, Creo, NX, Fusion, etc. on hand for occasional interviews sounds really expensive. And an experienced designer who can effectively every one of those is really rare and also expensive. I would call Altium/Cadence/Kicad "hardware design CAD packages", but those are completely different skillsets and I wouldn't expect a typical ME to know how to use them well.
Maybe someone can add some beaches to polling places, so they can Pokémon Go to the Polls.
Impressed with the onion burger for Oklahoma City.
This is a very transactional view of it, but I can see the line of thinking. My mom gave me everything I needed to succeed as an adult, and I owe her a lot, so now whatever she needs, I try to take care of it. Hopefully other people come to the same conclusion, but I don't think parents usually expect a financial ROI on raising kids haha.
Great talk thanks for sharing, someone actually sharing some solid actionable things for improvement of society!

I guess the real question is how to increase voter turnout. Maybe some crazy influencer marketing campaign, where influencers do meetups right at polling stations lol.

What if we offered some monetary or tax incentive if you vote like 4% off your taxes? Or you get $100 or something. That would cost around 30B and maybe it's worth it??
This is super cool. I don't know if motivation to build custom widget but very nice architecture.
(author) Thank you! But this was actually not very difficult. The PE format is well-documented, so I just extracted the code segment addresses, then generated an ELF by emitting code like this with a hacky Perl script:

.globl main
main:
trap
.byte 0xfc
.byte 0xff
...

etc. Assemble, run that in gdb, it traps immediately, and just disassemble from PC.
Why couldnt NVIDIA auction some to get best price?

I mean locking customers long term is probably better, but a certain % of product still vould be sold for a spot price? This made me wonder what is the optimum split on that - obviously depends on your market placement, but isnt nvidia basically a monopoly now?
You could encode UUIDs as base58, though I'm with you that that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
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Of course. Index for this column is inevitable and with index, uniqueness basically free and protects from programmer errors.
We have a costco membership, but use it mainly for the significantly cheaper gas.

We have a Costco membership, and I never use it to buy gas even when I'm already at Costco. There's always a line, and at a $0.05/gallon savings on a 12 gallon tank (assuming that I sputtered my way to the pump as the tank runs dry), the most I'll save is $0.60. My time is worth more than that, I'll just swing by Chevron on the way home where the only time consideration is how fast the pump can shove gasoline into the tank.

(Okay, maybe you save $0.10/gallon where you live: it's still only $1.20 savings in our car.)
This seems so easy, pull the 4g modem or its fuse? Or is it tied into the ECU so that our foreign adversaries now have the ability to brick our vehicles too?
It's definitely a bad idea, but at the same time, are nuclear power plants the sort of things that go horribly wrong if a human doesn't press a button quickly enough? I would have thought all the things that need to be timely would probably be automatically managed, leaving humans to do the high-level decisionmaking.
Wool lasts a hell of a lot longer as well. The only drawback...sheep farts.
You are not alone. Volkswagen is already rolling back to physical buttons.

https://www.engadget.com/volkswagen-drivers-want-more-physic...
I haven't released it yet, but I've been working on (and using) a clone of OmniFocus. It'll be open-sourced soonish, though I want to get it into a slightly better state before I do.

I love OmniFocus, it's good software, but my current job is really paranoid about third-party apps that phone home in any capacity. While I'm aware that you can point OmniFocus to a custom WebDAV server, there's always a risk that I forget to do that, end up sending something mildly proprietary to a third party and then getting in trouble. If I code it up myself, I do not have to worry about that; it will only send data to places where I tell it to.

OmniFocus also has the disadvantage of being Mac+iOS only. I currently only have an iPhone and a Mac so that works well enough, but when I had an Android phone for about five months last year I really ended up missing it.

Obviously there are millions of TODO apps out there, but I really like OmniFocus' project layout and reminders and the like, and it actually fits the ClojureScript + Re-frame model reasonably well.

Right now I'm just doing some Electron stuff, but I will probably start working on a port to React Native when I do the phone port, if I can get that working with ClojureScript.
I'm a front-end developer who specialises in Typescript. I made a Home Assistant add-on that allows me to code all my automations in TS with type safety and autocompletions. Once I had been using it for a good few months and saw its potential, I put some effort into making it open source, although I'm pretty sure I'm still the only user

https://github.com/TypedAssistant/TypedAssistant
> Or find the cell modem and hack that thing out of there.

I think we need more of this. Yank out the connectivity and be sure it's actually not sending anything.
A better question is why should it be pay to win?
It depends on how the game is setup. If it's "almost possible" to get them all, then it kind of feels like you have to get them all, even if that involves some serious work. This can be compounded if certain "best of breed" types can only be obtained in certain areas, or at certain times.

However, if it's setup so that it's basically impossible to get them all, but you can get many or any, then it doesn't feel as bad, especially if trading is an actual option that works. If the special and/or limited ones are more cosmetic, it becomes less of a chore and more of a "look what I have".
They should release their own console at this point. At least it'll be clear what it is you're buying.
This is such a weird take

These kinds of cases are good, as they help set precedent on how to better manage the relationship between users, businesses, and technology.

Some semblance of moderation is needed in every platform, and it's good to litigate in order to define red lines.

Edit: Turns out it's written by the CEO of TechDirt Mike Masnick, and he has previously been found to write articles after being paid by Google and Oracle (tbf, all the old school "tech" blogs do that, and it's gunna get real bad now that it's conference season)
Interesting. What kind of customers do you serve? (Non-hardware companies that just want to spin a product but no idea how? Companies that need lots of hardware engineers but don't want to interrupt their current ones to interview?)

How are they thinking of hardware engineers? (Like an interchangeable commodity or one that can get a letter grade? Very transactional, maybe a gig?)

Will your customers do substantial additional interviewing after passing your technical interview, for qualities you don't or can't evaluate but companies should? Could your service be mainly a screening, before a company invests more significantly in interviewing with technical and other team members?

What is your answer to "Why did I spend 4 years in engineering school, and build my professional track record, yet have to keep doing these negging tests? Does this company not employ anyone who can get a sense of a fellow engineer's skill and professionalism just by talking with them? Did they read my resume? And now they're not even administering the test themselves?"

Can a particular job-seeker interview with you once, and get their report card sent to many employers over time? Who pays for each instance, and do they pay less if it's reused?
I’m aware the Netherlands don’t implement Vision Zero, I just put them in as another example of a country that aims to reduce pedestrian deaths from cars :)
if discards go into the waste stream and into controlled disposal, then things are not terrible; but when products end up on the ground, in small pieces, on the streets or play yards.. problems.. streams and waterways - big problems
If you want super minimal, something like this might work?

#!/bin/bash

# Add this script to cron to run at whatever duration you desire.

# URL to be checked
URL="https://example.com/test.php"

# Email for alerts
EMAIL="root@example.com"

# Perform the HTTP request and extract the status code with 10 second timeout.
STATUS=$(curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}\n" --max-time 10 $URL)

# Check if the status code is not 200
if [ "$STATUS" -ne 200 ]; then
# Send email alert
echo "The URL $URL did not return a 200 status code. Status was $STATUS." | mail -s "URL Check Alert" $EMAIL

# Instead of email, you could send a Slack/Teams/PagerDuty/Pushover/etc, etc alert, with something like:
curl -X POST https://events.pagerduty.com/...
fi

Edit: updated with suggested changes.
Agreed. Not dismissing scaling social media as a trivial technical issue, but the real challenge with building a social media platform is building out the community that cause the tech scaling problems.
In 1990, 12% of the population was Black. [1] In California, they were 6-8% of the population. Today those numbers aren't very different. And in fact, Americans have consistently overestimated the percentage of Black people in the US, in part due to media representations. [2]

None of this means that Hollywood is/was not racist, but the problem of media representation is different from how it is usually presented. For example, Black actors have difficulty being cast as villains, because there's a longstanding fear in Hollywood about how that would look. [3]

[1] https://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/1991-02.pdf

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/4435/public-overestimates-us-bl...

[3] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kumail-n...
> The participants are not gamers, they are addicts and victims.

Where does that line get drawn?
A lot of vendors offer this and call it "synthetic monitoring". They will repeatedly send requests that you configure and record the success rate.

They usually all have pager duty integration as well.

Some examples:

Datadog: https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/
Grafana cloud: https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-synthetic-monito...
There is a market but not enough profit in serving it, unfortunately. Maybe if more people were aware/cared there could be. There are car companies now bragging about retaining physical controls so there might be hope longer term. Sadly most people seem perfectly OK giving up their privacy. Maybe if more people get affected by things like higher or dropped insurance the word will get out and more importantly, start sinking in to people.
Is that mostly an American thing? Did the EU somehow manage to protect it's citizens?
I don't think it's unfair in any way, as the regional Pokémon are mostly irrelevant for anything but the Pokédex (your collection tracker). They're just as easy to ignore as any unreleased Pokémon.

And if you really want to "catch them all", regional Pokémon have been repeatedly featured in various global events since the game launch back in 2016.
Itanium – A System Implementor's Tale (2005) [pdf]
There is no 'fin' in openkoda though? I could understand, because that will have to touch country specific bookkeeping requirements.
I do remember something about Michael Meeks calling Qt something like legacy or deprecated when asked about the option to port LibreOffice (or was it OOo at the time) to Qt. The irony.
Oh, 32-bits is enough for a lot of tables assuming you have a transactional ID allocator. The whole reason to have a UUID is so you don't have to serialize all your ID allocation. Agreed though that for some lower volume systems, 64-bits is likely enough to make collisions statistically unlikely.
Whenever I'm on the purchasing end working for a larger org, it is one of my initial requirements that the potential business partner is willing to extend their trial period, sometimes "indefinitely" (i. e. without an initial spec, cause I gotta talk to teams while getting familiar with Foo myself). I don't think anyone has ever refused, quite the opposite. But if they did, they're automatically off the table, unless they're a big deal such as Autodesk. They usually are not. I've done it a few times as an individual, with the same result. Hence I don't pay too much attention to whatever they say on their website.
Lu5: Lua Interpreter for Creative Coding
No, it's far less risky to invest in housing. These two graphs over long term illustrate the difference in risk:

Average home price since 1965: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS

Average Dow Jones index since 1919 [adjust scale to ~1965]: https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historic...